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...deliberate nuances, of course. Very few instructors, if any, take any pains to dispel the dangerous myth, very widespread in radical circles and among students in general, that because those who profess venerable systems do so hypocritically, the values themselves must be held suspect. Thus not only is the classroom devoid of partisan argument on behalf of particular value systems; but even less than at Berkeley or Central Washington or the other state colleges and universities I've been attached to does society's withdrawal from value systems of all kinds, and into a proliferation and legitimization of anarchical intellectual...
Many of Ornstein's ideas are spelled out in a book, The Psychology of Consciousness, published in 1972 and adopted for classroom use by more than 300 colleges and universities in twelve different departments ranging from biology to religion. Says Robert Livingston, professor of neuroscience at the University of California in San Diego: "Ornstein does an outstanding job of communicating ideas and giving a degree of legitimatization in areas which would be considered a little bizarre from the point of view of classical psychology." Says Assistant Professor of Psychology Louise Ludwig of Los Angeles City College: "Ideas about consciousness...
...Hall, vice president for Administration, was able to keep consumption within these quotas through a series of energy-saving measures. He ordered temperatures in dormitories (and all buildings not housing collections or experiments requiring 70-degree-plus temperature) to be lowered by several degrees. During the Christmas vacation, classroom buildings and any others which were not being utilized at all were "mothballed"--a word Hall used to indicate that the temperatures were lowered into the 50s. Dormitories and offices were set in the lower 60s for the vacation...
Among the qualities a scholar could bring back to the classroom from public life, Cox included political sophistication and 'much simpler observations upon public life," which he claimed are needed to distill the "hard substance" of politics...
...next step would inevitably follow: students themselves would be enabled to clothe the skeleton of theoretical inquiry with the practical knowledge gained only from work in the field. The thunder in this area has already been stolen by such schools as Antioch, where students divide their time equally between classroom study and employment on the outside. But such a program leaves the student to integrate these two antipodal experiences on his own. It is in providing the framework for a synthesis of theoretical and practical education that Harvard can serve as a pioneer...